Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Kilmodan, parish (Cowal)
Grid reference
NR 995 841 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
199500 684100
Latitude
56.00787314809686
Longitude
-5.216397429861899
Nearby places
Kilmodan, ~eccles. Kilmodan (0 miles)
St Modan's Chapel, (Cairn) Kilmodan (0.45 miles)
St Modan's Well, Kilmodan (0.47 miles)
Kilnaish, eccles. Kilmodan, Cowal (2.72 miles)
Kildalvan, settlement Kilmodan, Cowal (3.28 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR of Kilmodan Parish Church, a modern building in a cemetery where lie nine medieval grave-slabs.
Relationships with other places
Contains Kilbride, ~eccles. Kilmodan
Contains Kilbride, ~eccles. Kilmodan
Contains Kilbridemore, settlement, Kilmodan
Contains Kildalvan, ~eccles. Kilmodan
Contains Kildalvan, settlement Kilmodan, Cowal
Contains Kildalvan, settlement Kilmodan, Cowal
Contains Kilmodan, ~eccles. Kilmodan
Contains Kilnaish, eccles. Kilmodan, Cowal
Contains Kilnaish, eccles. Kilmodan, Cowal
Contains St Modan's Chapel, (Cairn) Kilmodan
Contains St Modan's Chapel, (Cairn) Kilmodan
Contains St Modan's Well, Kilmodan
Contains St Modan's Well, Kilmodan
Parish details
Kilmodan
Parish TLA
KMD
County
Argyllshire
Medieval diocese
Argyle
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Kilmodan
Head name
Kilmodan
Place
Kilmodan, parish (Cowal)
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Killmoiden 1684, Geog. Coll. II
Historic formKillmoiden Head nameKilmodan PlaceKilmodan, parish (Cowal) Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceGeog. Coll. II, 126 Date of citation1684 x 1684 |
Source code
Geog. Coll. II
Source title
Macfarlane's Geographical Collections
Editors
Arthur Mitchell (Sir)
Series
Scottish History Society
Volume
2 of 3
Historic formKilmadan Head nameKilmodan PlaceKilmodan, parish (Cowal) Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceOSA, vol. 4 p337 Date of citation1792 x 1792 Feature named in sourceparish |
Source code
OSA
Source title
Old Statistical Account
Relationships with other place names
Derives from Kilmodan, Kilmodan, ~eccles. Kilmodan
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
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Modern OS map:
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OS 1840-1880 map:
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OS 1920-1933 map:
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